Articles by Laina Dawes

YOB / Dark Castle / Sons of Otis

Courthouse, Toronto ON July 15

PUBLISHED Jul 18, 2011

While it was hard to decipher the rest of the song titles, you could clearly make out "JAM" handwritten in large, bold letters on the set l...

In Flames

PUBLISHED Jul 6, 2011

What would you do if you were told that life as you know it, would end in a year? Would you focus on your relationships with your family, y...

In Flames

Sounds of a Playground Fading

PUBLISHED Jun 20, 2011

Sweden's In Flames, despite being one of the originators of the melodic death metal scene in 1993, if not the first, have never strayed muc...

A Storm of Light / Tombs / Vilipend / Purity Control

Sneaky Dee's, Toronto ON June 11

PUBLISHED Jun 13, 2011

Thanks to a number of all-caps Facebook messages, it was made clear that if you wanted to catch this highly anticipated show, you had bette...

Rammstein

Air Canada Centre, Toronto ON May 8

PUBLISHED May 9, 2011

Up until last year, Rammstein hadn't played on North American soil in a decade, leading Toronto fans to anticipate a memorable event from t...

SXSW Music Festival

Austin, TX March 11-20

PUBLISHED Mar 22, 2011

Picture this: it's 5:30 a.m. and City and Colour's Dallas Green is sitting in an airport restaurant at a table across from singer Bobby Lie...

OminumGatherum

New World Shadows

PUBLISHED Mar 1, 2011

New World Shadows is an interesting album. The genre is melodic death metal, and while the Finnish band's fifth album is, overall, well exe...

Misery

Evil is Crowned

PUBLISHED Feb 19, 2011

Long Island, NY's Misery are straight up old-school metal, New Yawk style: their crushing breakdowns, penchant for Brooklyn-flavoured hardc...